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B-411841 1 (2015-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrpg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Onix Networking Corporation File: B-411841 Date: November 9, 2015 Michael D. McGill, Esq., Thomas L. McGovern, Esq., Brendan M. Lill, Esq., and Ogechi C. Achuko, Esq., Hogan Lovells US LLP, for the protester. Katherine Colleen Wallace, Esq., Peace Corps, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency issued an improper, out-of-scope, sole-source modification to a previously-awarded Federal Supply Schedule delivery order is sustained where record shows that the modification contemplates providing a product that was never sought during the original acquisition, and there was no reasonable basis for firms to know that the agency would use the delivery order to acquire the product in question. DECISION Onix Networking Corporation, of Lakewood, Ohio, protests the issuance, by the Peace Corps, of a modification to a delivery order previously issued to En Pointe Gov, Inc., of Gardena, California, to acquire an e-mail as a service (EaaS) product. Onix maintains that the modification is outside the scope of the delivery order originally issued to En Pointe, and that it amounts to an improper sole-source award for the agency's requirements. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND En Pointe is an authorized reseller of Microsoft products and services; Onix is an authorized reseller of Google products and services. The EaaS product that the agency is acquiring is a cloud based e-mail service, as opposed to the e-mail functionality currently possessed by the agency. The current e-mail functionality is comprised, in relevant part, of a collection of computing hardware, wide-area

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